®Planning appeal decision
Tin Bins Skip Hire, 63 Straight Road, Boxted, COLCHESTER, CO4 5QY
the erection of five dwellings with associated parking
- Authority
- Colchester Borough Council
- Appeal type
- minor · Planning Appeal
- Procedure
- Written Representations
- Development
- residential · Change of use
- Inspector
- Chalk M
Main issues, as the Inspector framed them
- Whether the appeal proposal accords with relevant local policies regarding the location of new housing and the safeguarding of employment land
- Whether appropriate remediation of contaminated land could be carried out if contamination is present
What decided it
The absence of information relating to contamination of the site, combined with the failure to accord with development plan policies on location and employment land safeguarding, outweighed the benefits of housing delivery.
The benefits of five new dwellings and short-term economic benefits from construction were outweighed by the harm from loss of employment use, the site's unsustainable location outside the settlement boundary, and the substantial weight given to the absence of contamination survey information for a sensitive residential use.
Plan policies cited: Policy SB1 of the Boxted Neighbourhood Plan, Policy H1 of the Colchester Core Strategy 2008, Policy SD1 of the Colchester Core Strategy 2008, Policy DP1 of the Colchester Development Policies 2010, Policy DP5 of the Colchester Development Policies 2010, Policy CE1 of the Colchester Core Strategy 2008, Policy CE3 of the Colchester Core Strategy 2008
The main issues and the deciding factor are read from the published letter by Town Planner Pro; the letter itself is the record. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Research, not advice.